Your Favourite Films!

Caro

Caro

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12 Angry Men - Henry Fonda
Angel A (French film)(mars in libra)

Tragedy (saturn in 5th)
La vie en Rose = incredible performance

Intensity (scorpio asc)
Cat on a hot tin roof.

Julia - tilda swanton(aqua sun)
Angel Heart - Mickey rourke(what happened to him - his chart would be very interesting)

there are so many - yes Shawshank redemption is incredible powerful film.

But for my inner child:

I loved jurassic park! (neptune in first house)
probably not that cool or profound!

Romantic side(fave chick flick):
while you were sleeping (venus in pisces)
 
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paneagle7

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your there reminds me of BEING THERE. favorites and sign designations are these:

lord of the rings - jupiter in aries 8th house - outdoors adventures
emerald forest - sun in sag in 4th house
field of dreams - mars in libra, sol gemini and moon in gemini (the writer goes to heaven and baseball outdoors, mystical (pluto in 12th)
city lights - mercury in capricorn
wizard of oz (sol moon in aquarius, sun in sag, venus in scorpio 3rd
and moon in gemini all fit)
doctor zhivago (moon in gemini, virgo rising)
its a wonderful life (all of the above)
pride and prejudice (venus scorpio 3rd house)
lost horizon (pluto in 12th, sun in 4th in sag rules 12)
woodstock (moon in gemini, pluto in leo)
2001 (uranus in 11th)

give me outdoors, adventure, love, freedom, good writing, music, and beauty
p.s Ive written one which I would love to get 'out there'
 
Caro

Caro

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Just to add some world cinema too.

I thought Babel very thoughtful (jupiter in 9th in cancer)

Also Indian films.
Kabul express - very interesting film. (4th house planets in touches on historic issues that has kept afghanistan in such a difficult situation)

The mummy (sun conj ic) also amusing (pisces in mercury)
 
piercethevale

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I just watched this tonight. It's great. It's Sergio Leone, Spielberg and Peckinpah all in one. It's subtitled but I didn't mind one bit. It's about4 or 5 different contentious forces all vying for the same prize for different reasons; The prize?... a map. There are Chinese, Japanese and Koreans either allied, opposed or both and/or alone. The three main characters are certainly identified with Eastwood, Wallach and Van Cleefs' characters and a smattering of the original plot makes this a homage to Sergio Leones classic that may even surpass it.
Picture in your mind superb photography, direction and editing along with beautiful sets and locations,,,more gun play, chases and explosions in one movie than you may ever remember seeing... [certainly more than I can ever remember]...every weapon imaginable along with just the right amount of martial arts...stunts of first rate caliber and there you've got it.
This movie doesn't disappoint.

"The Good, The Bad, & The Weird"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzNnCK5cd8Q
 
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nuthatch

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-Remains of the Day (my goodness, what a Capricorn/Rising movie...all about duty and the appearance of professionalism at any cost, and starring TRIPLE Cap Anthony Hopkins. Book is also wonderful, and one of my favorites)
-A lot of Hitchcock, but Notorious and Spellbound are my favorites
-Brazil (the Terry Gilliam fim)
-Le Corbeau (The Raven)--thriller by Henri-Georges Clouzot about anonymous poison pen letters that throw a small town into a frenzy of suspicion and reveal all sorts of secret prejudices and passions. Clouzot was a big influence on Hitchcock. Such an 8th house movie!
-Almost Famous--a favorite since high school; I can quote almost every line.
-Dirty Harry
-Ivan the Terrible
-Metropolis--probably my favorite film of all time. I just want to know everything about how it was made, and I can look at stills endlessly. Both Fritz Lang and Sergei Eisenstein just fascinate me no end. Kurosawa too, come to think of it.
 
piercethevale

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Just finished watching "Hereafter"...with Matt Damon...it has made my list. An emotional roller-coaster of a story...have a couple of hankies handy.
 
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Dr.Time

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If you haven't seen "Into the Wild" please see this. It's a powerful drama that reflects on renunciation and relationships.

Some of my favourites are:
Up in the Air
Thank you for smoking
The Big Lebowski
Oldboy
 
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piercethevale

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Dr.Time said:
If you haven't seen "Into the Wild" please see this. It's a powerful drama that reflects on renunciation and relationships.

Some of my favourites are:
Up in the Air
Thank you for smoking
The Big Lebowski
Oldboy
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The Big Lebowski....ROCKS....!!!!

...Into The Wild...I saw...I hated it...but, I can't slight the movie making...just the story...as that kid was one dumb m***********! But, also, the story doesn't 'wash'...something was not told entirely true...and, obviously, everything in the story past that certain point [you know what I'm talking about...] is entirely speculation...still, if it saves one person from pulling the same sort of stunt it is a movie worth while to some.
 
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piercethevale said:
The Big Lebowski....ROCKS....!!!!

...Into The Wild...I saw...I hated it...but, I can't slight the movie making...just the story...as that kid was one dumb m***********!
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Yeah the boy was quite immature, but you could attribute that too his age. He was certainly bright in many regards, just a little bit of course.
But his actions made me realize a lot of important things.

Can you recommend any movies like big lebowskit for me? :lol:
 
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piercethevale

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Dr.Time said:
Yeah the boy was quite immature, but you could attribute that too his age. He was certainly bright in many regards, just a little bit of course.
But his actions made me realize a lot of important things.

Can you recommend any movies like big lebowskit for me? :lol:
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Here's a clip from one as every bit as good as the Lebowski...and a clip
Paul Newman starred...and the original with Walter Brennan is super too...for those who are a fan of the genre...
Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean:scene, Bad Bob the Albino
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNM64VP2JBw
 
SecretGarden

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This is a cool thread.

Favorite movies:

1.) American Beauty
2.) Schindler's List
3.) Lord of the Rings (2nd is my favorite, then 3rd, then 1st)
4.) Shawshank Redemption (Morgan Freeman!)
5.) Sophie's Choice
6.) The Piano
7.) Rebecca
8.) Basically anything epic like Lord of the Rings.

to add:

favorite comedies:

1.) My Cousin Vinny
2.) Wedding Crashers
3.) Bridesmaids (it was so funny it hurt!)
 
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Horus

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Monty Python In Search of the Holy Grail
The Red Violin
Don Juan DeMarco
Dangerous Beauty
Cleopatra (Burton/Taylor)
The Last Temptation of Christ
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Temple of Doom
Last Crusade
Star Wars ('77)
Empire Strikes Back
Revenge of the Sith
The Abyss
Titanic
Avatar
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
House of Flying Daggers
Hero (Jet Li)
The Matrix
X-Men 2
Spiderman 2
Iron Man 1 & 2
Narnia films
LotR -esp. Fellowship
Dracula (Coppola's)
Flags of Our Fathers
Letters From Iwo Jima
Saving Private Ryan
The Fountain
2001 A Space Odyssey
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Liar Liar
Billy Madison
Happy Gilmore
Serendipity
Underworld
Cashback
Great Expectations
Shakespeare in Love
Braveheart
Dances with Wolves
The Ten Commandments (Heston)
It's a Wonderful Life
Logan's Run
Jaws
What Dreams May Come
Kill Bill vol 1. and 2
Groundhog Day
Ghostbusters
Star Trek (new)
Kelly's Heroes
The Road Warrior
Thief of Baghdad
Wizard of Oz
Beauty and the Beast
Lion King
The Rescuers
Pinnochio
Sleeping Beauty
All 4 Pirates of C. films
Vanilla Sky
Ran
Kagemusha
Seven Samurai
Empire of the Sun
Immortal Beloved
 
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piercethevale

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One of my top Ten ...at least 20...
Big Hand For the Little Lady
[A film about a once a year poker game involving the wealthiest men in the Territory]
with Henry Fonda, Joanne Woodward, Jason Robards, Charles Bickford [His last film as he died the following year. Acclaimed veteran actor and star of stage and screen and of many 'Westerns'], Burgess Meredith and Paul Ford...
It's a 'womans empowerment' film...a comedy...albeit a touch 'Black'.
Note Bickfords character as the misogynistic, aging, old undertaker who states in the film; "Women! I hate Them. I put them right where they belong! Six feet into the ground!"
 
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